Self-organizing peer-to-peer networks for collaborative document tracking

  • Authors:
  • Hathai Tanta-ngai;Evangelos E. Milios;Vlado Kešelj

  • Affiliations:
  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada;Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Complex networks meet information & knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Given a set of peers with overlapping interests where each peer wishes to keep track of new documents that are relevant to their interests, we propose a self-organizing peer-to-peer document-tracking network based on common interest profiles. The goal of a document-tracking network is to disseminate new documents as they are published. Peers collaboratively share new documents of interest with other peers. There is no explicit profile exchange between peers and no global information available. We describe a strategy for peers to discover the existence of other peers and learn about their interests locally, based on information carried in the document metadata that propagates through the network. Peers are connected based on their observed common interests. We compare our proposed common interest strategy with a randomly connected network. The experimental results, based on simulated environment using the ACM digital library metadata, demonstrate that the proposed strategy gives the best dissemination performance. We also demonstrate that our self-organizing networks follow the characteristics of social networks.